Definition of Glaum

1. v. i. To grope with the hands, as in the dark.

Definition of Glaum

1. Verb. (Scotland) To grope with the hands, as in the dark. ¹

2. Verb. (Scotland) To grasp or snatch (at). ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Glaum

1. to clutch [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: clutch

Lexicographical Neighbors of Glaum

glauconitic
glaucophane
glaucophanes
glaucophyte
glaucophytes
glaucosis
glaucosuria
glaucous
glaucous gull
glaucous sedge
glaucousness
glaucousnesses
glaucus
glaukosphaerite
glaum (current term)
glaumed
glauming
glaums
glaunc'd
glaunce
glaur
glaurier
glauriest
glaurs
glaury
glave
glaver
glavered
glaverer

Literary usage of Glaum

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The First One Hundred Noted Men and Women of the Screen by Carolyn Lowrey (1920)
"LOUISE glaum Thus was entitled the piece in which Louise glaum made her first essay as an actress. She was one of three sisters whose home was with their ..."

2. An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: To which is Prefixed, a by John Jamieson (1879)
"This may be merely a provincial variety of glaum, qr It may, however, ... [7*o dam от glam, it to snatch от grasp eagerly : to damn or glaum, ..."

3. Genealogical and Personal History of the Upper Monongahela Valley, West by James Morton Callahan (1912)
"He married in Washington, Pennsylvania, September, 1893, Alice C. glaum, ... Her mother, Eliza glaum, is living in Taylorstown, Pennsylvania. ..."

4. The Psalms: Frae Hebrew Intil Scottis by Peter Hately Waddell (1882)
"... 'till God that rights a for mysel : 3 dHe sal rax frae the lift, an' sal redd me free, frae the haughty carl that wad glaum at me : || Selah. ..."

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